Affording Truth
Wagga Wagga Art Gallery
Affording Truth explores how we perceive and navigate truth in an era of global uncertainty, using the framework of affordances - the qualities of objects or environments that suggest or enable actions and interactions. Perceived, false or hidden, affordances are everywhere and key to how humans navigate the world.
Fuelled by the rapid integration of digital networked systems and hardware, social media, algorithms and artificial intelligence, truth has become relative, contested and ambiguous. Facts once deemed indisputable are now questioned and open to manipulation in social, political and digital worlds through the creation and widespread distribution of unfiltered content, artifice, fake news, disinformation and confected realities.
